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Soft or Hard Towels

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Wangel

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Growing up my towels were always hard. I don't know how my mom did this, since the towels were always soft when purchased. Now married, the towels are always fluffy and soft. Very soft! When drying off, they don't feel right and don't seem to absorb water as the hard towels. How do you make a soft towel hard?
 
Don't use fabric softener. If you really want 'em hard, hang them outside on the clothesline and they'll dry stiff as a board.
 
Yep, Fathom4 is right... BUT, have you considered the fact that it might not be a hard or soft towel that absorbs more water... but maybe you were smaller as a kid so had less water to absorb?
 
One more vote for huge fluffy towels you can camp under. 😀


Kumbaya (Peter, Paul & Mary)
 
Towels shouldn't be artificially fluffed by fabric softeners; this makes them feel soft, but the fibres are less absorbent. I use a half cup of baking soda in the wash when I am doing a load of towels and washcloths. This helps ensure that the detergent rinses out completely, and it gives a fluffy, gentle feeling to the terry-cloth without impairing absorbency. I learned this from a "Heloise" column years ago. I've never found a better method.

Flimsy, cheap towels like the ones at Motel 6 really suck. Great big, thick Egyptian cotton towels are worth the extra money. I don't know why, but the pure white ones seem best to me. Must be psychological.
 
I don't even think my mom washes the towels. There are years worth of history in the dirt of my towel, and I wouldn't trade it for a world of fluffy absorbant towels. Remember that blood stain from when I slipped on the wet floor and cracked my head on the toilet. Ahh those were the days 😛
 
Hehe. Like Dom De Luise once said, in the 50s and 40s, Jesuits forbade students from rubbing after showering, so they not get impure thoughts, just wet dreams.

It was supposed to be all pat-pat-pat. The result could be seen later on SNL. PAT!

😀

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